June 29, 2012

How To: Make Natural Raspberry Peach Fruit Leather


I don't know what it is about those fresh little pints of raspberries from Agriberry Farm at our local Farmer's Market, but they always get me in the mood to make fruit leather.

June 28, 2012

Bean Plant Update & Canning Spicy Dilly Beans


Our little backyard urban garden continues to grow and we're now at the stage where we've been able to enjoy and preserve some of the fruits of our labor! Today, we want to talk about beans.

June 27, 2012

Bok Choy Update


Today we're excited to share a little Bok Choy plant update alongside the 4th installment of our Sustainable Scraps mini-series over on The Rikrak Studio where we've documented each of the steps in the growing process thus far!

June 26, 2012

Summer Storm Hits Richmond


We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you new shots of storm damage from the Fan! You may recall the hurricane that came through while we were in our old house — well we had another violent storm hit during tornado warnings in our area yesterday and it was a little scary.

June 25, 2012

Weekend Basics



We've had a few back to back jam packed (say that 5 times fast) weekends over the past couple weeks and more to come soon, so we jumped at the chance to hunker down around the house over the weekend. We took time to just relax, and catch up on season 4 of Breaking Bad in prep for the upcoming premiere of season 5! Anyone else hooked on this show? Weekend activities also included some gardening, cooking and a little bit of jewelry-making (on Mary's part)...

June 23, 2012 Richmond, VA 23220, USA

Our NYC Photo Album


It wouldn't be us if we didn't share a little photo roundup of our week in NYC, so sit back and (hopefully) enjoy our week in photos...

June 19, 2012

17 Apart Portrait by Katie Noonan


While in the city, we received a custom portrait of Tim, myself and Basil all hand drawn by one of my Etsy coworkers, Katie Noonan.

June 18, 2012

Weekend Basics


This weekend was actually a bit of a blur. We drove back from NYC on Friday and had a full weekend scheduled so Saturday and Sunday happened quickly — Hello Monday!

June 15, 2012

On The Road Again


Testing testing -- 1 2 3. Testing testing -- can you see?

June 14, 2012

I Tumblr For You...


Please excuse the Culture Club reference, we couldn't resist (warning: clicking that link will cause a case of the can't-get-this-song-outta-your-heads syndrome).

June 13, 2012 Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA

Skillet-Fried Southern Oyster Po' Boys


Tim's been in the kitchen again and this time he's really outdone himself! He brought some fresh oysters home late last week and whipped up some of the best southern food I've had in a long time — and you guys know how much he cooks around here! Find the full recipe for this incredible skillet-fried oyster Po' boy in his latest guest post for Lot18.

June 12, 2012

Too Hot for Baseball


Those who know me, know I love the Phillies. Needless to say, we'd been excited about our plans to go see them play the Orioles in Baltimore on Sunday. We left Richmond bright and early to head up to Maryland since we wanted some time to walk around the Inner Harbor and the ballpark before the game started.

June 11, 2012 Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA

Weekend Basics


1 All of Saturday we spent time with our family celebrating the amazing life of my Grandmother. She would have made it to 101 years this July, so there were lots of stories and memories to share as you can imagine.

June 8, 2012

World History: Hanging Our School Map


Back in January, our friend Richard, who writes the fab Hills & Heights neighborhood news blog here in RVA, gave us a full sized industrial pull-down world map he'd rescued from a local school in our old neighborhood as a housewarming gift. He too shares a penchant for all things vintage with a little history. We were pretty much beside ourselves with the map since we'd been on the hunt for one to re-purpose into a piece of large-scale art for more than a year.

June 7, 2012

Sweet Potato Plant Update


Today we're excited to share a little sweet potato plant update alongside the 3rd installment of our Sustainable Scraps mini-series over on The Rikrak Studio where we've documented each of the steps in the growing process thus far!

June 5, 2012

Bringing the Gun Lamp Back to Life


We've been meaning to share this post about revamping a new-to-us gun lamp (you heard that right), but are just getting to it now — you might notice we got this done a little bit before we were able to paint the front room judging from those bright red walls that are no more in the background of some of these shots. OK, we admit we did this in April and have no excuse — please forgive us!

June 4, 2012

Weekend Basics


We were all over the place here in RVA this weekend it was enough to make a wired puppy pass out...

June 1, 2012

A Little Entryway Gallery


As we head off into this weekend we wanted to leave you with another fun little home project we took care of this past weekend — a miniature photo gallery in our front entryway.
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